In Response To: The halo story...and wheres its coming from (Omar)
: let me get one thing out of the way; I love the Halo games. I own both Halo 1
: and Halo 2 for xbox. But having said that, I'm really dissapointed with
: the story of the games and I'm surprised why people are even into it for
: the story...opposed to the gameplay, multiplayer and graphics.
: I mean, lets face it, all halo does is take everyone from starcraft and put
: it into a first person shooter. Exactly. Its amazing how similar
: everything is, heres just some of the things ive seen
: Starcraft
: Terrans; genetically enhanced super soldiers, Protoss; Alien race with
: religious goals and civil wars, Zerg, bug like race lead by overmind, The
: Terrans and Protoss are at war and the zerg suddenly come out of nowhere
: and threaten both races, the Protoss fire an ancient temple to kill off
: (or stop) all the zerg, which was created by the Xel naga, a mysterious
: alien race that created the zerg and protoss, but was destroyed because of
: the zerg, the terran AI woman who directs all conversations before
: missions, main characters must sacrifice themselves for the greater good,
: Tassadar, some in the Protoss and Terrans are corrupt and desire power,
: etc.
: Halo
: Spartans, genetically enhanced super soldiers, Covenant, Alien race with
: religious goals and civil wars, Flood, bug like race (lead?) by Gravemind,
: The Humans and Covenant are at war and the Flood suddenly come out of
: nowhere and threaten both races, the firing off of ancient structures
: (rings) to kill off (or stop) the flood, which were created by the
: Forerunners, a mysterious alien race that have some connection with the
: Covenant, humans, and flood, but were destroyed because of the flood,
: Cortana, the AI woman who directs all conversations and advised the
: player, main characters must sacrifice themsevels for the greater good,
: captain Keyes, soliders, some in the Covenant and humans are corrupt and
: desire power, etc.
: I mean its almost amazing how unoriginal the story is...bungie tries to mix
: things up by adding in ideas from the bible and the 3 main religions but
: even that isnt enough to make this story stand out from the rest.
: We all already know how its going to end, itll look like all hopes lost,
: dramatic deaths of main characters, sacrifice, blah blah and the the races
: will understand what the forerunner is, humans will realize some stuff...
: I think the only reason people pay attention to the story at all is because
: bungie only gives us a little info, and people have to make sense of
: it...its not that whats being told is all that great, its just how its
: being told, its like a grandfather telling his newphews and nieces a story
: like, and then they got lost in the woods..ok thats enough for tonight,
: ill tell u the rest tommorow... for any story people need to know how it
: ends and whats going on
what would you prefer instead, a genetically enhanced gorilla directing all conversations and giving advice to the player instead of a female AI? Your forgeting that the number one role of most almost all AIs is to inform and collect information because they are basically living computers.
also the flood aren't very bug like, they are really more like killer space ninja zombies
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